Gints Klimanis
July 30th, 2003, 06:20 PM
Has anyone tried or seen Audio Technica's adaptive array mics?
http://www.audio-technica.com/prodpro/profiles/AT895.html
It's VERY expensive, for now. Here's a review:
http://mixonline.com/ar/audio_audiotechnica_dspcontrolled_adaptivearray/
Mike Rehmus
July 30th, 2003, 10:14 PM
Yes, I played with one at NAB last year. Very impressive. Has some problems but it sure will ignore the bus idling beside you while you interview someone standing beside it on the sidewalk.
It is the only direction microphone I know of that will reject off-axis low frequency sound.
Jacques Mersereau
July 31st, 2003, 08:17 PM
I too looked at it at NAB. The booth guy made a face and we talked.
His opinion was that for the money (+$2K) there are far better options.
Mike Rehmus
July 31st, 2003, 08:26 PM
Probably the same guy I talked to. He said that the only big buyers were the networks for stuff like the olympics and the like. They are into the second iteration on the design and it apparently doesn't work all that well except that it really rejects side noise.